Welcome to the webpage for Sonic
Overload. As my regular listeners know by now, I play punk, hardcore, garage
and other loud music, although there are surprises from time to time as well as
decidedly slanted commentary on the “issues of the day” and that’s also
presented through song selections and audio clips.
Recent shows can be streamed or
downloaded from the archive at sonicoverload.blogspot.com. And check out the Facebook page.
Send any music (vinyl or CD) for
possible airplay to:
Sonic Overload
Al Quint
PO Box 43
Peabody, MA 01960
E-mail: subvox82@gmail.com
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OCTOBER 28, 2024
I’ve never
gone out of my way to be part of the Boston music critic cadre—writers from the
daily papers and, when they were around, arts weeklies. I’ve become acquainted
with some of them, one of them a bit more in recent years. I never really knew
Steve Morse from the Boston Globe, who passed away a few days ago from cancer.
He did once interview me about Suburban Voice for a piece on local ‘zines in
the 1980s and he did a good job. I didn’t always agree with his assessments,
such as review of The Clash’s first local show at the Harvard Square Theater. I
haven’t been able to locate the review, but I remember he complained they
played too long and too loud and that Paul Simonon was “deadweight” on bass.
Ouch. But he did seem like a good guy and deserves respect for the decades he
was involved in music journalism.
STREAM
OR DOWNLOAD:
PART 1
45 GRAVE-Black Cross (Goldar)
BROKEN TOYS-Smash Some Pumpkins
(Trashtone)
SHOWCASE SHOWDOWN-The Only Scary Thing About
Halloween Is Your Fucking Face (from “Songs For The Witching Season,” Creep)
BILLIAM-It’s Spooky 4 (from “Halloween
Mixtape #4,” Dirtbag)
NIGHT BIRDS-Bad Biology (No Way)
SCARED OF CHAKA-All My Friends Are
Ghosts (Sub City)
HEX DISPENSERS-Channel 13 Is Haunted
(Alien Snatch)
SIHIR-Kuasa (La Vida Es Un Mus)
S.H.I.T.-Rotten Column (Iron Lung)
MURO-Cultura Mercenaria (Beach
Impediment)
VIDRO-Aldrig Mer Fred (Beach
Impediment)
ASSISTERT SJØLMORD-Toxicity (Static
Shock)
ZODD-Dystopian Future (La Vida Es Un
Mus)
SHELLAC-My Black Ass (Touch and Go)
NOMEANSNO-It’s Catching Up (Alternative
Tentacles)
NOMEANSNO-Two Lips, Two Lungs and One
Tongue (Alternative Tentacles)
VOLCANO SUNS-Tree Stomp (from “Claws,”
Throbbing Lobster) in memory of Jon Williams
PART 2
GBH-Lycanthropy (Clay)
SLAUGHTER AND THE DOGS-Victims Of The
Vampire (Damaged Goods)
MONSTERS-I See Dead People (Voodoo
Rhythm)
BLOWTOPS-Cannibal Lust (Big Neck)
SLIMY MEMBER-The Corpse (Todo
Destruido)
BLANK VEINS-Woke Up The Same Day
(Estranged Communications)
TRVSS-Malaria (self-released)
TANGENT-Reoccurring Nightmare (demo)
ZEKE-Season Of The Witch (Dead
Teenager)
SPIKE PIT-Devil’s Son (Big Spike)
SUBCULTURE-I Heard A Scream
(Fartblossom)
ACCÜSED-Martha Splatterhead (Subcore)
GRIFFIN-The Phantom of the Shocker
(Moneytalks)
ROSEMARY’S BABIES-Alice In Murderland
(Ghastly)
MISFITS-Wolfs Blood (Plan 9)
PART 3
EJACULATORS-Fuck Off (General Speech)
AUTOBAHNS-I Like Tomorrow (Feral Kid)
BAD ANXIETY-Cool Moves (Feral Kid)
BERMUDA SQUARES-Polygraph (Feel It)
FREAK GENES-Insect Politics (Feel It)
THE SOUND-Cold Beat (Reminder)
NATIVE TONGUE-Bit Part (Modern Method)
MOVING TARGETS-Squares and Circles
(Taang)
MONONEGATIVES-Second Self (Dowd)
BZDET-Syreny (Syf)
WARM GIRLS-Sideways (demo)
GØGGS-Shotgun Shooter (In The Red)
DICK MOVE-Wet (1:12)
PART 4
IGGY POP/JAMES WILLIAMSON-I Got A Right
(Siamese)
DEAD BOYS-I Won’t Look Back (Sire)
PATTI SMITH GROUP-Pumping (My Heart)
(Arista)
MINK DEVILLE-Let Me Dream If I Want To
(from “Live at CBGB,” Atlantic)
HOOKERS-Satan’s Highway (Crypt)
INFECTIONS-Zombie (Rip Off)
DRAGGS-Ghost Pit (demo)
MUTOID MEN-Ly Canthrope (Rumbletown)
LEE HARVEY OSWALD BAND-Getting Wasted
With The Vampires (Touch and Go)
DOTTIE DANGER-Bela Lugosi Is Alive
(Gravewish)
GRIM REAPER-See You In Hell (RCA)